3.11.2006

Its gonna be one of those weeks :(...

So after being sick for a week, i have a good bit of reading to make up... as to be expected, but on top of that this coming week is going to be one of the busiest weeks/weeks ever!!...
Items may not be in cronological order :(

Saturday:
1. Clean apartment (otherwise i will use this as reason to procrastinate during the week)
2. Do laundry (despritley out of clean clothes)
3. Go grocery shopping for the next two weeks (because I am not going to have time to do so)
4. Read 4 papers for class on monday, plus whatever else may appear in my box between now and then (~2 inch thick stack)

Sunday:
1. Spend morning on boat in the Pearl River, get sediment samples for wet splitter calibration
2. Wash glass wear for Pipette lab (>100 beakers plus glass pipetts a pain in the ass to clean), must be perfectly cleaned with Milli-Q and not touched by human hands :(
3. Mix up Calgon with Milli-Q (calgon takes forever to dissolve in Milli-Q:( )
4. Mark all pipettes with 5cm , 10c, and 20cm lines
5. Set up example for pipette analysis, makes it alot easier when demonstrating what pipette analysis is.
6. locate 4 stop watches with seconds, much easier said than done
7. Read 6 papers (so far) for proposal for Estuaries project
8. Set up various other things needed for pipette analysis set up

Monday:
1. Meet with other two in Estuaries class to start writing proposal for Estuaries project (due the following week)
2. Teach marine geo lab how to do the prep work for pipette
3. Sit there and watch/supervise as student do the prep work for pipette analysis (this pays the bills, guess it could be worse :()
4. Go to Fine grained sediments class... get midterm take home exam... its gonna be a bunch of essay questions... each one will probably end up being a paper... :(
5. Work more on proposal for estuaries project
6. Start seds midterm
7. read for Estuaries tomorrow

Tuesday:
1. Go to Estuaries class
2. Finish writing proposal for estuaries class
3. go to library to find articles for take sed midterm
4. work on prospectus!!!!

Wednesday:
1. Set up for pipette analysis
2. Do pipette analysis
3. if any time between setup and analysis (doubtful) work on seds midterm
4. Go see anberlin at the HOB, yay one night of sanity
5. talk to charlotte about army core samples in the Pearl River marsh
6. Read for eastuaries tomorrow

Thursday:
1. Go to estuaries class... get estuaries midterm... again numerous essay questions, each one ending up about the size of a paper
2. Take some guy on tour of the pearl river via boat... I dont want to do this, but I have no choice this is going to take all day :(
3. Work on seds midterm... try to have almost done by now
4. Work on estuaries midterm
5. Read for class tomorrow (dont know how many papers yet.. usually about 3-5)

Friday:
1. Go to library for estuaries midterm
2. Make up fine grained sediments class
3. Work on estuaries midterm/seds midterm
4. Email mark about vibercoring in marsh
5. Start grading lab reports (there are two weeks worth :()

Saturday:
1. If seds midterm is not finnish -- finish it first
2. Work on estuaries midterm
3. Finnish prospectus
4. go insane
5. drink heavily

Sunday:
1. Read for fine grained seds tomorrow
2. Finnish eastuaries midterm
3. Work on prospectus
4. Finnish grading lab reports

Monday:
1. Read for eastuaries tomorrow
2. Hand in seds midterm
3. Go to sed class
4. If lab reports still need looked at, finnish today!

Tuesday:
1. Hand in Estuaries midterm
2. Go to estuaries class
3. Give CB lab reports
4. Determine sampling dates, based on marks response'
5. Creat sampling devices for estuaries project (aka play with power tools)

Wednesday:
1. Read for estuaries tomorrow
2. Set up for lab
3. Teach lab
4. Grade lab reports

Thursday:
1. Go to estuaries class
2. go out into the pearl river to place sediment plates and take water samples
3. filter water samples for SPM

Friday:
1. Go to New Orleans for tour of levees (Pradnya is making me go!!!)
2. grade lab reports
3. Read for class on Monday
4. Drink Heavily!!!!!!

SATURDAY:
1. CRASH!
2. Watch tv
3. do nothing productive:)


Ahh it is gonna be a long two weeks! I am sure that as the week begins more stuff will be added :(.... ahh well sleep isnt needed, and apparently my zero coke is gonna go out the window... There is no way I am gonna survive this without COKE!!!!! oh well, i was good for a little while, but atleast I will start fresh, being able to feel the effects of one coke, vs having to drink like 4 for a caffeen kick! Ahh...

1 comment:

M said...

Damn, that makes my schedule look like child's play. Good luck with that :)